@inbook{61cbe165f17b464a83768d1e9170d449,
title = "“Every Love Story is a Ghost Story”: The Spectral Network of Laurie Anderson{\textquoteright}s Heart of Dog (2015)",
abstract = "While it has been described as “a paean to a canine friend”, “a meditation on love and loss” and a collection of “eccentric musings on the evasions of memory, the limitations of language and storytelling”, Laurie Anderson{\textquoteright}s Heart of a Dog (2016) can also be understood as a network of ghost stories. Drawing on Anderson{\textquoteright}s idiosyncratic multi-media technique (foregrounding technology) and conceptualizing of the future, this chapter will explore the ways in which the figures of 9/11, Lou Reed, David Foster Wallace, Gordon Matta-Clark and the Bardo course through Heart of a Dog. Exploring the implications of the juxtaposition of these themes and Anderson{\textquoteright}s oeuvre including her live performance work and the Downtown New York artistic milieu she emerged from, Williams positions the film in relation to a confluence of network theory and hauntology as a particular rendering of twenty-first century subjectivity.",
keywords = "network, sashaying, subjectivity, ghosts, the Bardo",
author = "Deane Williams",
year = "2020",
language = "English",
isbn = "9789463728706",
series = "Film Culture in Transition",
publisher = "Amsterdam University Press",
pages = "95--110",
editor = "Julia Vassilieva and Williams, {Deane }",
booktitle = "Beyond the Essay Film",
address = "Netherlands",
}